Duryodhana Describes Yudhishthira's Consecration

Verse 1 (2.79.1)

आर्यास्तु ये वै राजानः सत्यसन्धा महाव्रताः । पर्याप्तविद्या वक्तारो वेदान्तावभृथप्लुताः ॥

āryāstu ye vai rājānaḥ satyasandhā mahāvratāḥ | paryāptavidyā vaktāro vedāntāvabhṛthaplutāḥ

Noble kings, true to their word and keepers of great vows, fully learned and eloquent, who had taken the closing bath on completing the Veda,

Verse 2 (2.79.2)

धृतिमन्तो ह्रीनिषेवा धर्मात्मानो यशस्विनः । मूर्धाभिषिक्तास्ते चैनं राजानः पर्युपासते ॥

dhṛtimanto hrīniṣevā dharmātmāno yaśasvinaḥ | mūrdhābhiṣiktāste cainaṃ rājānaḥ paryupāsate

steadfast, modest, righteous and renowned, consecrated kings, all waited upon him.

Note on the text: Corrected नाशस्विनः → यशस्विनः (misprint in Wikisource; नाशस्विनः is not a word; the critical edition reads yaśasvinaḥ). Corrected पर्युपांसते → पर्युपासते (misprint in Wikisource; stray anusvara; the critical edition reads paryupāsate).

Verse 3 (2.79.3)

दक्षिणार्थं समानीता राजभिः कांस्यदोहनाः । आरण्या बहुसाहस्रा अपश्यंस्तत्रतत्र गाः ॥

dakṣiṇārthaṃ samānītā rājabhiḥ kāṃsyadohanāḥ | āraṇyā bahusāhasrā apaśyaṃstatratatra gāḥ

Everywhere there, people saw cows brought by the kings for the sacrificial fees: forest cows by many thousands, with bronze milking pails.

Note on the text: Corrected समानीत → समानीता (misprint in Wikisource; the participle must agree with गाः; the critical edition reads samānītā).

Verse 4 (2.79.4)

आजह्रुस्तत्र सत्कृत्य स्वयमुद्यम्य भारत । अभिषेकार्थमव्यग्रा भाण्डमुच्चावचं नृपाः ॥

ājahrustatra satkṛtya svayamudyamya bhārata | abhiṣekārthamavyagrā bhāṇḍamuccāvacaṃ nṛpāḥ

There, O Bharata, the kings themselves, calmly and with due honour, lifted and brought vessels of every kind for the consecration.

Note on the text: Corrected आजह्रस् → आजह्रुस् (misprint in Wikisource; dropped vowel sign of the perfect; the critical edition reads ājahrus).

Verse 5 (2.79.5)

बाह्लीको रथमाहार्षीज्जाम्बूनदविभूषितम् । सुदक्षिणस्तु युयुजे श्वेतैः काम्बोजजैर्हयैः ॥

bāhlīko rathamāhārṣījjāmbūnadavibhūṣitam | sudakṣiṇastu yuyuje śvetaiḥ kāmbojajairhayaiḥ

Bahlika brought a chariot adorned with river-gold, and Sudakshina yoked it with white horses bred in Kamboja.

Note on the text: Corrected काम्भोजजैर् → काम्बोजजैर् (misprint in Wikisource; the people is Kamboja; the critical edition reads kāmbojajair).

Verse 6 (2.79.6)

सुनीथः प्रीतिमांश्चैव ह्यनुकर्षं महाबलः । ध्वजं चेदिपतिश्चैवमहार्षीत्स्वयमुद्यतम् ॥

sunīthaḥ prītimāṃścaiva hyanukarṣaṃ mahābalaḥ | dhvajaṃ cedipatiścaivamahārṣītsvayamudyatam

Mighty Sunitha, well pleased, brought the under-frame of the chariot, and the lord of Chedi himself raised and brought the banner.

Verse 7 (2.79.7)

दाक्षिणात्यः सन्नहनं स्रगुष्णीषे च मागधः । वसुदानो महेष्वासो गजेन्द्रं षष्टिहायनम् ॥

dākṣiṇātyaḥ sannahanaṃ sraguṣṇīṣe ca māgadhaḥ | vasudāno maheṣvāso gajendraṃ ṣaṣṭihāyanam

The king of the south brought armour; the king of Magadha a garland and a turban; the great archer Vasudana a lordly elephant sixty years old;

Verse 8 (2.79.8)

मत्स्यस्त्वक्षान्हेमनद्धानेकलव्य उपानहौ । आवन्त्यस्त्वभिषेकार्थमपो बहुविधास्तथा ॥

matsyastvakṣānhemanaddhānekalavya upānahau | āvantyastvabhiṣekārthamapo bahuvidhāstathā

the king of the Matsyas, gold-bound axles; Ekalavya, a pair of sandals; and the king of Avanti, many kinds of water for the consecration.

Verse 9 (2.79.9)

चेकितान उपासङ्गं धनुः काश्य उपाहरत् । असिं च सुत्सरुं शल्यः शैक्यं काञ्चनभूषणम् ॥

cekitāna upāsaṅgaṃ dhanuḥ kāśya upāharat | asiṃ ca sutsaruṃ śalyaḥ śaikyaṃ kāñcanabhūṣaṇam

Chekitana brought a quiver; the king of Kashi a bow; Shalya a sword with a fine hilt and a carrying-sling adorned with gold.

Verse 10 (2.79.10)

अभ्यषिञ्चत्ततो धौम्यो व्यासश्च सुमहातपाः । नारदं च पुरस्कृत्य देवलं चासितं मुनिम् ॥

abhyaṣiñcattato dhaumyo vyāsaśca sumahātapāḥ | nāradaṃ ca puraskṛtya devalaṃ cāsitaṃ munim

Then Dhaumya and Vyasa of great austerity anointed him, with Narada at their head, and Devala and the sage Asita.

Note on the text: Corrected अभ्यपिञ्चत् → अभ्यषिञ्चत् (misprint in Wikisource; प for ष; the critical edition reads abhyaṣiñcat). Corrected समुहातपाः → सुमहातपाः (misprint in Wikisource; transposed vowels; the critical edition reads sumahātapāḥ).

Verse 11 (2.79.11)

प्रीतिमन्त उपातिष्ठन्नभिषेकं महर्षयः । जामदग्न्येन सहितास्तथान्ये वेदपारगाः ॥

prītimanta upātiṣṭhannabhiṣekaṃ maharṣayaḥ | jāmadagnyena sahitāstathānye vedapāragāḥ

The great sages gladly attended the consecration, together with Jamadagni's son and other masters of the Vedas.

Verse 12 (2.79.12)

अभिजग्मुर्महात्मानो मन्त्रवद्भूरिदक्षिणम् । महेन्द्रमिव देवेन्द्रं दिवि सप्तर्षयो यथा ॥

abhijagmurmahātmāno mantravadbhūridakṣiṇam | mahendramiva devendraṃ divi saptarṣayo yathā

The great-souled ones came to him, the giver of rich fees, with mantras, as the seven sages in heaven come to great Indra, lord of the gods.

Note on the text: Corrected अभिजग्मर् → अभिजग्मुर् (misprint in Wikisource; dropped vowel sign; the critical edition reads abhijagmur).

Verse 13 (2.79.13)

अधारयच्छत्रमस्य सात्यकिः सत्यविक्रमः । धनञ्जयश्च व्यजने भीमसेनश्च पाण्डवः ॥

adhārayacchatramasya sātyakiḥ satyavikramaḥ | dhanañjayaśca vyajane bhīmasenaśca pāṇḍavaḥ

Satyaki, true in valour, held his parasol; Dhananjaya and Bhimasena the Pandava held the fans;

Verse 14 (2.79.14)

चामरे चापि शुद्धे द्वे यमौ जगृहतुस्तथा । उपागृह्णाद्यमिन्द्राय पुराकल्पे प्रजापतिः ॥

cāmare cāpi śuddhe dve yamau jagṛhatustathā | upāgṛhṇādyamindrāya purākalpe prajāpatiḥ

and the twins likewise held two spotless yak-tail whisks. The conch that Prajapati once took up for Indra in an earlier age,

Note on the text: Wikisource divides verses 14–22 one half-line out of step with the critical edition (2.49.13–21). The first line (चामरे…) is not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension; the CE gives it in its apparatus as 481*, after 2.49.13); the second line is 2.49.14a.

Verse 15 (2.79.15)

तमस्मै शङ्खमाहार्षीद्वारुणं कलशोदधिः । शैक्यं निष्कसहस्रेण सुकृतं विश्वकर्मणा ॥

tamasmai śaṅkhamāhārṣīdvāruṇaṃ kalaśodadhiḥ | śaikyaṃ niṣkasahasreṇa sukṛtaṃ viśvakarmaṇā

that conch of Varuna the ocean brought for him, together with a sling-stand made by Vishvakarman and worth a thousand nishkas of gold.

Note on the text: Lines correspond to 2.49.14c and 2.49.15a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently).

Verse 16 (2.79.16)

तेनाभिषिक्तः कृष्णेन तत्र मे कश्मलोऽभवत् । गच्छन्ति पूर्वादपरं समुद्रं चापि दक्षिणम् ॥

tenābhiṣiktaḥ kṛṣṇena tatra me kaśmalo'bhavat | gacchanti pūrvādaparaṃ samudraṃ cāpi dakṣiṇam

When Krishna anointed him with it, I fainted there. Men go from the eastern ocean to the western, and to the southern too,

Note on the text: Lines correspond to 2.49.15c and 2.49.16a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently).

Verse 17 (2.79.17)

उत्तरं तु न गच्छन्ति विना तात पतत्रिभिः । तत्र स्म दध्मुः शतशः शङ्खान्मङ्गलकारकान् ॥

uttaraṃ tu na gacchanti vinā tāta patatribhiḥ | tatra sma dadhmuḥ śataśaḥ śaṅkhānmaṅgalakārakān

but to the northern they do not go, dear father, except by birds. There they blew conches by the hundred, bringing good fortune,

Note on the text: Corrected उत्तरं तु गच्छन्ति → उत्तरं तु न गच्छन्ति (misprint in Wikisource; the pada is a syllable short and the dropped न reverses the sense, the northern ocean being reachable only by birds; the critical edition reads uttaraṃ tu na gacchanti). Corrected पतत्र्रिभिः → पतत्रिभिः (misprint in Wikisource; doubled र). Lines correspond to 2.49.16c and 2.49.17a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently).

Verse 18 (2.79.18)

प्राणदन्त समाध्मातास्ततो रोमाणि मेऽहृषन् । प्रापतन्भूमिपालाश्च ये तु हीनाः स्वतेजसा ॥

prāṇadanta samādhmātāstato romāṇi me'hṛṣan | prāpatanbhūmipālāśca ye tu hīnāḥ svatejasā

and as they sounded, blown all together, my hair stood on end. And the kings who were weaker in their own vigour fell to the ground.

Note on the text: Lines correspond to 2.49.17c and 2.49.18a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently).

Verse 19 (2.79.19)

धृष्टद्युम्नः पाण्डवाश्च सात्यकिः केशवोऽष्टमः । सत्वस्था वीर्यसम्पन्ना ह्यन्योन्यप्रियदर्शनाः ॥

dhṛṣṭadyumnaḥ pāṇḍavāśca sātyakiḥ keśavo'ṣṭamaḥ | satvasthā vīryasampannā hyanyonyapriyadarśanāḥ

Dhrishtadyumna, the Pandavas, Satyaki, and Keshava as the eighth, steadfast and full of valour, delighting in one another,

Note on the text: Lines correspond to 2.49.18c and 2.49.19a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently).

Verse 20 (2.79.20)

विसञ्ज्ञान्भूमिपान्दृष्ट्वा मां च ते प्राहसंस्तदा । ततः प्रहृष्टो बीभत्सुः प्रादाद्धेमविषाणिनाम् ॥

visañjñānbhūmipāndṛṣṭvā māṃ ca te prāhasaṃstadā | tataḥ prahṛṣṭo bībhatsuḥ prādāddhemaviṣāṇinām

seeing the kings senseless, and me as well, laughed at us then. Then Bibhatsu, delighted, gave five hundred oxen with gold-covered horns

Note on the text: Lines correspond to 2.49.19c and 2.49.20a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently).

Verse 21 (2.79.21)

शतान्यनडुहां पञ्च द्विजमुख्येषु भारत । न रन्तिदेवो नाभागो यौवनाश्वो मनुर्न च ॥

śatānyanaḍuhāṃ pañca dvijamukhyeṣu bhārata | na rantidevo nābhāgo yauvanāśvo manurna ca

to the foremost of the twice-born, O Bharata. Neither Rantideva nor Nabhaga, nor Yauvanashva, nor Manu,

Note on the text: Lines correspond to 2.49.20c and 2.49.21a of the critical edition (Wikisource divides the verses differently); in the second line the critical edition reads naivaṃ śambarahantābhūd for न रन्तिदेवो नाभागो.

Verse 22 (2.79.22)

न च राजा पृथुर्वैन्यो न चाप्यासीद्भगीरथः । ययातिर्नहुषो वापि यथा राजा युधिष्ठिरः ॥

na ca rājā pṛthurvainyo na cāpyāsīdbhagīrathaḥ | yayātirnahuṣo vāpi yathā rājā yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

nor King Prithu son of Vena, nor Bhagiratha, nor Yayati, nor Nahusha was such as King Yudhishthira is,

Note on the text: The first line is 2.49.21c; the second line (ययातिर्नहुषो…) is not in the critical edition (found in the vulgate recension; the CE gives it in its apparatus as 484*, after 2.49.21).

Verse 23 (2.79.23)

यथाऽतिमात्रं कौन्तेयः श्रिया परमया युतः । राजसूयमवाप्यैवं हरिश्चन्द्र इव प्रभुः ॥

yathā'timātraṃ kaunteyaḥ śriyā paramayā yutaḥ | rājasūyamavāpyaivaṃ hariścandra iva prabhuḥ

so exceedingly is Kunti's son endowed with supreme fortune, having accomplished the Rajasuya, lordly like Harishchandra.

Verse 24 (2.79.24)

एतां दृष्ट्वा श्रियं पार्थे हरिश्चन्द्रे यथा विभो । कथं तु जीवितं श्रेयो मम पश्यसि भारत ॥

etāṃ dṛṣṭvā śriyaṃ pārthe hariścandre yathā vibho | kathaṃ tu jīvitaṃ śreyo mama paśyasi bhārata

Having seen in Pritha's son this fortune, such as Harishchandra had, O lord, how can you think that life is any good to me, O Bharata?

Note on the text: Corrected दृष्टा → दृष्ट्वा (misprint in Wikisource; the nominative दृष्टा cannot agree with the accusative श्रियं, and the absolutive is needed; the critical edition reads dṛṣṭvā).

Verse 25 (2.79.25)

अन्धेनेव युगं नद्धं विपर्यस्तं नराधिप । कनीयांसो विवर्धन्ते ज्येष्ठा हीयन्त एव च ॥

andheneva yugaṃ naddhaṃ viparyastaṃ narādhipa | kanīyāṃso vivardhante jyeṣṭhā hīyanta eva ca

Like a yoke fastened by a blind man, everything is turned upside down, O king of men: the younger grow and the elder only dwindle.

Verse 26 (2.79.26)

एवं दृष्ट्वा नाभिविन्दामि शर्म । समीक्षमाणोऽपि कुरुप्रवीर । तेनाहमेवं कृशतां गतश्च । विवर्णतां चैव सशोकतां च ॥

evaṃ dṛṣṭvā nābhivindāmi śarma | samīkṣamāṇo'pi kurupravīra | tenāhamevaṃ kṛśatāṃ gataśca | vivarṇatāṃ caiva saśokatāṃ ca

Seeing this, I find no peace, however much I reflect on it, O hero of the Kurus. That is why I have grown thin like this, pale and full of grief.